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Post by markcunn2 on Jun 1, 2009 23:21:39 GMT
The thread is simple. Each day, post a quote or poem which you feel best describes how you feel at the time. This first one comes from a film called Coach Carter. I like this quote as it makes me really ponder life.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Post by hallmackem on Jun 4, 2009 8:51:56 GMT
If someone's walking, if someone isn't filling a gap you get on his case. You say to him. If I'm monkey'sing walking I want to hear it. Listen to me now, listen to me. I want them standing back thinking 'What the monkey's is going on?' Not for the first five minutes, every monkey'sing minute of the game. monkey'sing manic aggression! Did you scare anyone? Did you put the fear of God in anyone?
By that big ginger Irishman currently captaining the Lions tour Paul O'Connell. It makes me wish it was still the Rugby season.
And I know it's two but this one makes me laugh and is relevant at the moment as well:
“'Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”
Brian O'Driscoll on Martin Johnson's team selection.
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Post by lemonpiper on Jun 4, 2009 14:06:13 GMT
Ha ha! Like the tomato quote.
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Post by hallmackem on Jun 6, 2009 11:20:21 GMT
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
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Post by Bismarck on Jun 8, 2009 19:48:38 GMT
You are richer today if you have laughed, given, and forgiven....Me
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Post by hallmackem on Jun 9, 2009 11:44:04 GMT
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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Post by lemonpiper on Jun 9, 2009 13:15:47 GMT
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow
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Post by arover on Jun 9, 2009 14:31:38 GMT
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
Steve Earle.
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Post by Bismarck on Jun 9, 2009 16:57:52 GMT
Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune...Gandhi
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Post by hallmackem on Jun 9, 2009 16:59:58 GMT
Honesty is incompatible with amassing a large fortune...Gandhi Gandhi was clearly talking out of his behind when he said that.
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Post by Bismarck on Jun 9, 2009 17:04:48 GMT
Do you really think so...I wonder?
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Post by hallmackem on Jun 9, 2009 17:06:52 GMT
Are you suggesting it's impossible to get rich unless you lie?
If you received a large inheritance, or won a huge cash prize, would you have to have lied? Surely you could be open and honest about both of those things?
Or if you wrote a book, or a song, that a lot of people happened to like and got rich that way? Is that being dishonest?
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Post by lemonpiper on Jun 9, 2009 17:36:11 GMT
Gandhi wasn't talking about that kind of getting rich though as, other than an inheritance which somewhere along the line probably WAS lied & cheated for, they weren't at all common in his day.
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Post by Bismarck on Jun 9, 2009 17:50:42 GMT
Are you suggesting it's impossible to get rich unless you lie? If you received a large inheritance, or won a huge cash prize, would you have to have lied? Surely you could be open and honest about both of those things? Or if you wrote a book, or a song, that a lot of people happened to like and got rich that way? Is that being dishonest? To amass is not surely and instant win or inheritance?
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Post by hallmackem on Jun 10, 2009 8:31:23 GMT
They were just examples. Plus, you have completely ignored the reference to the selling of books or music.
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Post by hallmackem on Jun 10, 2009 8:32:37 GMT
other than an inheritance which somewhere along the line probably WAS lied & cheated for, they weren't at all common in his day. Not by the person who inherited it...
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Post by Bismarck on Jun 10, 2009 17:40:23 GMT
Do not be afraid of making choices at this stage of your life. Failures does not mean that you have failed but only means that you are given another fresh start to try it again with a little more wisdom than before; Challenge your thoughts; Take a chance to launch deeper into the sea of thoughts; The choices are yours to make, choose them wisely and well! -Me...lol
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Post by Bismarck on Jun 13, 2009 10:42:23 GMT
Some days we are the bloody flies . . . some days we are the windscreen
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Post by hallmackem on Jun 15, 2009 13:12:29 GMT
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
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Post by ftmlad on Jun 21, 2009 23:12:01 GMT
"content what a thoroughly discusting word. It means nothing, nothing at all. Precisely halfway between agony and ecstacy."
just a random line that got me thinking in the book that i'm on reading at the moment.
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Post by Aber Wolf on Jun 21, 2009 23:51:03 GMT
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."Albert Einstein One of my favourites ;D
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Post by hallmackem on Sept 13, 2009 22:08:25 GMT
"It is a very sad thing, nowadays, that there is so little useless information." - Oscar Wilde.
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Post by Lukiebakercafc on Sept 14, 2009 1:12:36 GMT
Love that Oscar Wilde quote Ben along with Wilde sarcastically suggesting that "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit". What a legend!
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Post by Tyler on Sept 14, 2009 17:23:42 GMT
If you want the rainbow, you'll have to put up with the rain...
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Post by Tyler on Oct 8, 2009 21:27:39 GMT
It's better that you've come from nothing than nothing comes from you
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Post by Stealth on Oct 13, 2009 16:12:23 GMT
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs
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